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The Hawaii travel account describes testing the AI for an upcoming trip: a personalized agent named Mele monitors airfare against a baseline and checks official travel conditions across the six major Hawaiian islands on a schedule, notifying only on meaningful price changes or visitor-affecting updates. The post carries a paid partnership disclosure.
He found the GPX file from his 2013 Mongol Rally, 437 kilobytes with 2,226 track points and 98 check in messages. After a flat map first to check the data, three rounds of prompting with AI turned it into an interactive 3D globe with every message pinned where it was sent and 99 photos placed along the 11,138 km route.
The solo maintainer of the karasu modeling language runs dependency updates through an AI skill that investigates each Dependabot PR before anyone merges: release notes, the diff between tags, publisher or ownership changes, install-time scripts, lockfile edges and known advisories, written up as merge, hold or reject recommendations in a design doc. In the week of Oct 10–17 three triage rounds fed 88 merged PRs (16 from Dependabot) and 12 architecture decision records, and the process caught a rebuilt lockfile silently moving a package off the reviewed version.
The AI wrote the tooling to annotate historic map tiles and a CV model ran across the rest for an exhaustive study of unlisted formal gardens in Ireland; a decade-planned project done in a weekend.
In the same week, Alec Ellin had the AI mine his own Instagram and LinkedIn connections and turn them into a leads list — prospecting built from the network he already had rather than a purchased list.
Inc. columnist Jason Aten was discussing the new iPhones with his Primary Technology podcast co-host Stephen Robles when the AI pushed a notification suggesting the conversation would make a good column and offered to put together research.
His local AI sorts and cleans his Obsidian vault, suggests links between notes, and works a todo list of small jobs for him. A related eBay sniping tool from the same setup runs in simulation only, which he is open about.
Asked a chatbot to make a browser extension that adds the Google Maps link back to search results; uses it almost every day.
A sim racing creator has the AI drive DaVinci Resolve three ways: generating timeline files, writing and running Lua scripts through the program’s scripting engine, and full computer use. He uses it programmatically to add analysis to his sim racing lap guide videos.
He had a pile of old laptops he had never gone through. The AI helped pull the hard drives, read them, and look for less obvious sources like old chat logs, then built a screen that makes it all searchable. He found personal history he had forgotten about.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.